Thank you so much everyone for taking the time to respond. Your first photo siriuskey is the colour scheme I'd love to go with so good to hear that you'd think it would match with the blonde brick. I also like the shale grey roof idea butterflyroof and you're right that you don't see much of the roof at all (mainly when looking out the upstairs bedrooms). The olive green is definitely another possibility to look at oklouise and I've made a note to use 'mid-century' in search terms. Definitely plan to pressure clean bricks and a bit relieved to hear that leaving them is the better option. I'm still finding it hard to imagine a darker grey cladding like monument with the blonde brick debluc but it's certainly been suggested a few times so I'll keep searching for inspiration. Thanks again :) (attached is a photo of a house near us that I like and that has a brownish tinge to the cladding that would hopefully work with our bricks as it seems to work with their sandstone - maybe dune colourbond?)

Our own house has an Ironstone roof and we have Shale Grey facias and gutters & Windspray wall cladding. Looked great when first done in 2006 as there were no other grey houses.... unfortunately it's now everywhere. However are you thinking light colour walls or going darker? What is the design style and the surrounding area?

Sadly there aren't any digital, online tools to get super-accurate colour rendition. Most of the online tools give approximate and indicitive looks. There are many reasons for this, including your perception of the colour depending on the quality of light and time of day, and the accuracy of your computer's graphic card and your computer monitor. If you want to see what I mean then do a google image search for a popular Colorbond colour, such as "Surfmist", and you will be amazed at the huge variety of Surfmists show up in images ranging from blinding white to dirty beige! I used to be the national design manager with a large national builder and only by employing skilled graphics artists using top-of-the-line graphic workstations could we get close enough to the real thing, but they were never perfect. The best (and cheapest) option is to get samples of the materials and colours you are looking at, and assemble them together outside (in natural light), and see how they look different at different times of day under different light conditions. Don't waste your time with online colour applications if you want colour accuracy. Best of luck, Dr Retro of Dr Retro House Calls

Hi everyone, I am having a ironstone colorbond roof and dark window frames, if I have a surfmist or shale grey, will it look a light blue?